NEW STOP SIGNS ARE BEING ERECTED IN HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

PennDOT District 11 is announcing lane restrictions on Interstate 376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) in Center Township, Beaver County will occur today through Saturday, October 23-27 weather permitting. Single-lane restrictions will occur in each direction of I-376 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day between the Center (Exit 42) and Aliquippa (Exit 45) interchanges as crews conduct work on a downed conductor adjacent to the highway as a result of damage caused by a gas line explosion. Additionally, today short-term traffic stoppages of five minutes or less will occur on I-376. PennDOT is not involved in this work and is providing this information as a public service announcement only. For additional information contact Jared Bohr at 724-830-5815.

THE HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS APPROVED 4 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS AT THEIR MEETING LAST NIGHT. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS THERE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

THE ALIQUIPPA ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF FACES A HEARING TODAY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS A PREVIEW. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The Beaver High School principal has resigned. Steve Wellendorf’s resignation will take effect Oct. 31, according to Superintendent Carrie Rowe. Wellendorf was placed on administrative leave in August. Details were never released because his leave was being treated as a personnel issue. Wellendorf and his religious group were accused of bullying Rowe because she is gay. The controversy created a rift in the school district. In a release, the district said Wellendorf is leaving his position “in good standing.” The release said Wellendorf was aware concerns prior to his leave were not related to his “religious beliefs affiliations or social opinions, nor were they the result of any personal animus directed toward him by any District employee or School Board member.” They also said the concerns did not involve criminal allegations.

Local officials are planning to meet with Central Valley School District representatives on a plan to add a Monaca police officer at Central Valley Middle School. It’s reported the position at the Allen Avenue school would be funded through grant money. The district already has a full-time armed school resource officer primarily stationed at the high school.

A Rochester couple is facing child endangerment charges after a boy was found wandering the streets in near-freezing temperatures last week. A mail carrier found the 17-month-old boy walking in the 400-block of Harmony Avenue Thursday morning in bare feet wearing a polo shirt and pajama pants. Evan Stevenson and Maranda Dunn were later arrested with Dunn freed on ten-thousand-dollars bond. Stevenson remains in custody.

A Rochester man arrested following a weekend standoff is being identified. Thomas Brantner is charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest after he allegedly head-butted a woman at a nearby Sheetz, then retreated to his home on the 500-block of Connecticut Avenue Sunday morning. Brantner is in Beaver County Jail in lieu of 50-thousand-dollars bail.

An Ohio woman is accused of trying to take a loaded handgun through a TSA checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport Thursday. The Austintown woman is facing a civil fine, usually around 39-hundred dollars for the offense. It’s reportedly the 29th firearm found this year at the airport’s TSA checkpoint.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23RD, 2018

TODAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A RAIN
SHOWER. HIGH – 55.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. LOW – 38.

WEDNESDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A
RAIN SHOWER. HIGH – 48.